The human genome has 49 cytochrome c pseudogenes, including a relic of a primordial gene that still functions in mouse

Gene

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 61-72

  Zhang, Zhaolei ^a   Gerstein, Mark ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Cytochrome c; Evolution; Genome; Pseudogenes

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CENTROMERE; CODON; DATA BASE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EXON; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RODENT; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TESTIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; DNA; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0141652962     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(03)00579-1     Document Type: Article

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